Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-07-30
NEBRASKA.

The work OF grading for the stock yards
and packing house has commenced 1T Ere.
mont
question Of putting $40, 600 iuto a new court
house.
An eles ster, mill and two warehouses we're
destroyedby Gre at Manteno Friday. Loss,
sls Zoo.
Lightning killed three horses and burned a
barn belonging to Lee Woods, near O'Neill,
Last Monday.
A Red Cloud firebug, In an unguEded no
nent, slipped from the embrace Of the sheriff
and disappeared.
The wife OF Ed. Dillon, Of Creighton, COM
United suicide by drow ming Oh Thursday
morning in q mill pond.
The Chicago and Northwestern has purchas-
ed thirty eight acres 0 land OF the South
Omaha land syndicate.
Willie BonniDg, "A Dsrid City he'd, gave up
a leg while playing brakeman in the North
western railroad yards.
A son Of Mr.. Sheridan, near Okay, sustain
ed ~iusuries while running a self binder from
which.he wiz probably die.
Mr. and Mrs. James white, ofyrepns, aged
'eighty-two and eighty-seven years, celebrated
dast week their golden wedding.
a carload Of tramps threatened Oakland
end created a good deal,of excitement. They
however lett and made s raid or Lyons.
The daughter Of Il farmer nacled C8rruth-
ers was burned TO death az Fullerton By start
ing aiire in the kitchen stove with coal oil.
The Knights Of Labor assembly at Fall
River instructed their delegate TO the Mime
apolis convention to vete to indorse Pow
desiy.
The Young son of Mrs. B. L.. Dader, Of holt
county, went out with ga old army musket
loaded for~wolves and wss brought home a
corpse.
Charlie Waterworth, a worthless, migrate
son, robbed bis mother Ia Nemaha county of
the family horse, sold the ANNA! and left the
county.
Forty tramp6 got on a train at Blair and
rode into Oakland, the conductor being DOW
erless to eject them. They werefnally driven
out OF town.
The eoroner's jury at Hayelock declared
Engineer Bowser guilty Of criminal careless.
ness In the train collision on the Burlington
and Missouri.
Another installwent OF Sioux bucks from
Pine Ridge have started for Europe to i)in
Buffalo BAl and whoop up the efete mon
arehs Of the east.
The proposition TO vote S25 0G0 In bonds to
build a court house and jail in the town OF
Pierce was voted ON Wednesday In Pierce
county and defeated.
w. ID. Prindla, an old resident OF Adams
county, died suddenly Of heart disease on his
way to Hastings, Tuesday. The body wac
found by the roadside.
Hastings is h%urrying to the front as a SUM-
mer resort. a swarm Of cAinch bugs are now
doing the town. The natives find poor pick
ing among their guests.
Brewster is jubilaRt over the coming of the
Burlington and Missouri to that place, the
News indulging in a great display of head
lines over the announcement.
A good share of the grading on the Kansas
City and Omaha railroad between Fairfield
and Alma is already completed, and will be
ready for the iron In a few weeks.
The Union Pacific company compliments
ne Grand Island fire department by tender
ng the members a special train aud a fr.e I
'lde to and from the Kearney tournament. t
Some h~eartless or poverty pinched mother
n hastings dropped her baby on the doorstep b
the Hogle residence. 1t fell to kird hands
nd Mr.. and Mrs. 4ogle propose to adopt 1t. v
Galloway is just having a new boom, 7O0.-
90 brick having just been sold or new II
torres. 1t Is ambitious to become the county u
eat. Petitions for an election are being cir IL
Inc lawyers Of rhe Seventh judicial district ! =
omlnated Isaac Power and j. G.. Crawford. L
and Democrat, for Judges. The !"
emocratic judicial committee endorsed their m
.tion.
David W: Hoffman, the Missouri Psc,oc nj
Blu w~recker, was hanged at Nebraska City az
lo:3o Friday morning. He broke Town i"
q cried like a child. Death was instan ~
n9ous.
The Wood River Gazette sees wonderful ~
nefts growing out OF the location Of armour uS
Omahs. This means that Omaha will be
Nebraska what Chicago has been 10 Hi S.'
Is for years. I
herd OF thirty-four borses belonging TO We
ssrs. Wyatt and Abingdon, Of Cheyenne sue
were stolen recently, driven 20 Holt Po'
nty and sold to farmers, the thieves realiz. 1l'
a large profit. l.
ut for $4,000 has been fled against the 1
aha Herald by Isaac Brown. Tho H. raid app
he was one Of q disreputab,e gang IN . :
aha furnishing women for house, uf III. am
e In eastern cities.
the race at the hremen's tournamcr { AZ ,io
rney, the Hooks Of Holdrege tool, trst
and the Portsmouth hose first in The 4, :
race. The crowd is increasing and oy. RS. ,ho
7 is In good spirits. m
Thursday morning David Hoffman ch
hanged at Nebraska City Friday " ,,.r wv
MS declaration that he saw 6Io,k 'he
"a At the jail, open the fire escsre 49,, zoe
5osannan to get out. non
bull In Wayne CHARGED nm .. ~
n nre engine while the machine was hit.
a. The boys turned the hose ON -
9 eye, and after four successive chauaI 4
'himsi retired to the field thorouvhlv e
4. sny "